James Fisher Robinson, Jr.

Birth Date

1832-11-25

Death Date

1892

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Lexington, Kentucky, resident and Quartermaster General of Kentucky. Georgetown, Kentucky, native. Son of James Fisher Robinson and Susan D. Mansell Robinson. Married to Mary Wheeler Robinson in 1859. Graduated from Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky, in 1853. Merchant in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1860. Quartermaster General of Kentucky from 1862 to 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 4th Ward City of Louisville, p. 14.
William Henry Perrin, ed., History of Fayette County, Kentucky, with an Outline Sketch of the Blue Grass Region by Robert Peter, M. D., Professor of Chemistry in the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Chemist to the State Geological Society, Etc. (Chicago, IL: O. L. Baskin and Company, 1882), p. 691.
“Robinson, James Fisher, Jr., 1832-” Social Networks and Archival Context, http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6v1241s (accessed January 3, 2017).

Find A Grave, “James F. Robinson (1832-1892),” Memorial #98031371, http://findagrave.com/memorial/98031371 (accessed February 23, 2018).

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